Seated on the Ring of Fire Japan has had to develop strategies to deal with earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons and other natural catastrophes. Professor Rajib Shaw is in the Graduate School of Media and Governance at Keio University discusses the world-beating disaster response systems Japan has developed and how that technology and resilience can be replicated abroad.

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